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1 1
' In town s
today
11a. m. Hearing of House Select
Committee on Presidential
Primaries, Boone County
Courthouse.
5: 30 p. m. Warren Hearnes
press conference, Ramada Inn.
8 p. m. High school football,
Hickman vs Hannibal, Hickman
Field.
Exhibits
Continuing: University FJse
Arts Gallery, drawings by
Brooke Cameron, 9 am. to 3 pm.
Public library, Acrylics by
Evelyn Jorgenson, 9 am. to 6
p. m. Columbia Gallery of
Photography, photographs by
Ansel Adams, 11 a m. to 3 p m.
Columbia Art League heraldic
banners by Gary Hennlgh and
paintings by William Sapp, 10: 30
ajn 3 15 p. m. Betty Robins
Gallery, pastels and paintings by
Suzanne Vanasse, 10: 30 a. m. to
3: 15 p m Columbia College Art
Center Gallery, oil paintings and
water colors by Frank Stack, 8
am to 4 30 p m. Stephens
College Student Art Gallery,
painting, sculpture, photography,
ceramics and glass works, 8 am.
to 5 p. m. Davis Art Gallery,
Navajo handiwork, 8 a. m. to 5
p m. Kirtley Library, Columbia
College, floor plans, pencil
sketches, water colors and
perspectives by Marianne
Clough, 8am to 10pm.
See page 5B for movie listings
Insight
Who will pay
cost of new
power plant?
Proposition One:
regardless of passage
consumers bear cost
By Terry Judd
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missounans
Against Proposition One says passage
of the proposed measure will result in
higher electricity ratesr bettQtiammior
Reformed Electric Rates, initiators of
the proposition, contends its defeat will
have the same effect.
Under Proposition One, electricity
utility companies would be prohibited
from charging higher rates while a
power plant is being built to pay for
what is misleadingly termed
" construction work in progress"
( CWIP).
The term is misleading because the
utilities are not being allowed to charge
electricity consumers for all power
plant construction costs as they are
incurred, but only for the interest cost
of borrowing money to build the plants.
Under CWIP once a power plant goes
into operation, ratepayers begin paying
not only tor the interest cost but also for
the construction and operation costs of
a plant In theory, the rate increase at
this time would be less than under the
old system of not allowing any plant
costs to be charged before the plant
went into operation.
The CWIP controversy began in
Missouri with a 1975 decision by the
state Public Service Commission ( PSC)
to allow Union Electric Co. of St Louis
to charge its ratepayers for the interest
cost of borrowing money to build a
( See PROPOSITION, page 11A)
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Boone County Jail prisoners may be placed in a 10
By Ken Evans
Missourian staff writer
The Boone CountyJail sits behind the
Courthouse looking more like a
condemned schoolhouse than a jail
Crisp morning air blows past
fragments of glass where windows once
protected inmates from the weather
Inside, barefoot prisoners roam the
concrete floor of their cell, and gray
concrete shows through red paint on the
floor
Downstairs in the jail lobby, Kenny
Baumann, the head jailer, monitors the
sounds of the cellblock on an intercom
and studies a chalkboard showing the
cell assignments of each inmate
Closed circuit cameras carry activity
in the cells to the sheriff's office in the
Courthouse, about 50 feet away.
Baumann was responsible for 42
prisoners on a recent Friday, but only
31 were in the county jail. Nine were in
the city jail, two were in the State
Hospital at Fulton Twenty- si- x of the
prisoners have been charged with a
crime and are waiting trial They have
not been convicted
On weekends the jail is much more
crowded
The Boone County Jail does not hold
prisoners for more than one year
Those with sentences longer than one
year are sent to the state penitentiary
in Jefferson City
The Columbia City Council passed a
resolution Sept 20 which would denv
the county use of the aty jail after Dec
1
The resolution calls for the county to
provide 24- ho- ur supervision of the
county prisoners in the city jail, to
assume responsibility for liability from
damages to property and persons, to
take the responsibility for renovations
to the facility as it ( the county) sees fit
or at the recommendation of the
Columbia fire marshal and to provide
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Karen Uison
-- man " tank" where they share a toilet, a sink and dilapidated shower.
State accepts city plan;
air pollution suit ends
By David Firestone
Missourian staff writer
ST LOUIS John Levis says he
doesn't expect to see anyone from the
city of Columbia in front of his
commission again
Levis, chairman of the Missouri Air
Conservation Commission, closed the
book on the city's air pollution suit
Thursday morning when he and three
other members of the commission
formally agreed to accept the city's
settlement proposal.
The suit, hied last June by the state
attorney general's office, charged the
aty with repeated air quality violations
at its municipal power plant
A settlement was accepted
informally by the commission at its
Sept 22 meeting. Formal approval,
however, was delayed until the aty and
state could agree upon a timetable for
implementation
The settlement requires the
installation of a $ 2 3 million
electrostatic precipitator, and levies an
$ 8,000 fine on the city Installation of the
precipitator will begin Jan 1, 1978, and
the air- cleani- ng device will be in
operation by January 1979
The city has to be in final compliance
with state regulations by March 15,
1979
. " It took a while, but we finally got it,"
Levis said after the meeting " I think
the wait was worth it."
Levis' remarks contrasted sharply
with the severe tongue lashing he gave
City -- Counselor Rhonda Thomas in
August He has accused the aty then of
failing to act m good faith
Levis said he now was satisfied with
the agreement " I don't have any
questions about the city's good faith
this time," he said " Besides, they're
bound to act by the court order If they
don't, they'll be in contempt of court "
The commission is not concerned
with how the city will afford the
precipitator, Levis said ' They've said
they could do it, and now they'll have
to"
Assistant Atty Gen Dan Summers
said the court order enforcing the
agreement would be entered in Boone
County Circuit Court by the end of
October or the middle of November
City officials still will maintain
contact with the commission's staff on
a regular basis- t- o ensure no violations
of the agreement, Levis said He said he
doubted, however, that the matter
would return to the commission again
unless there was a flagrant violation of
the terms
Audit shows missing funds
! Clerk's woes mount f By Scott Sunde - and Martha Polkey- -
This has not been one of Boone
County Clerk Murry Glascock's better
weeks.
Thursday, an audit of his office
revealed a discrepancy of about $ 1,500
in reports of planning and zoning fees
from 1975 and 1976.
On Tuesday, it was disclosed that
Glascock made a $ 1 million mistake
last year in reporting county tax
revenue. That error could cost the
county at least 138,000 in lost revenue- sharin- g
funds for 1978.
County Auditor Don Caldwell said
Thursday that the chance of recovering
the lost $ 38,000 is only " about 30 per
cent"
To top it all off, Glascock can't find
the answers to all of Caldwell's
questions about the errors because he is
deluged by work before the Nov. 2
general election. The county clerk
rqmfaHp $ ffWtinns.
Caldwell said a " routine periodic
audit" of the clerk's and planning and
toning offices shows that about $ 1,500 in
fees handled by the clerk's office was
not received by the county treasurer's
office.
" The clerk has been unable to
account for the funds," Caldwell said.
At this point, be said, " we haven't been
able to get an explanation."
- Glascock said part of the- - money
apparently had not been delivered
because of confusion in the recent move
from the County Courthouse to the
County- Cit- y Building. He said $ 300 has
been located and sent to the treasurer
The remaining discrepancies total
about $ 700 to $ 800, Glascock said.
He said the discrepancies apparently
were bookkeeping mistakes made in
the clerk's office at various tunes and
were not attempts to take county
money.
The fees have gone through the
county clerk's office before being
delivered to the treasurer since the
initiation of planning and zoning in 1974.
Caldwell said the proper procedure did
not call for the fees- t- o pass4hrough the
clerk's office, but Glascock said that
procedure had been followed at County
Court direction.
Southern District Judge Carolyn
Lathrop said she does not recall a court
order to that effect during her tenure.
Fees now are reported directly to the
treasurer's office.
Caldwell said he requested
information on the fees from Glascock
through a '' non- publ- ic interoffice
memo" after the audit began three
weeks ago.
The audit has not been extensive
enough to determine if the errors are
more than common reporting mistakes,
Caldwell Mid. " Some- lar- ge errors'
have been discovered by the audit, he
said, including at least one mistake of
more than $ 100.
Fees collected in the planning and
zoning department include those for
building permits, conditional use
permits, subdivision platt fees and map
fees Caldwell would not say which fees
were involved. He said he assumed the
errors involved both cash and check
transactions.
The audit was routine and not
initiated because of any sign of
inadequate reporting procedures,
Caldwell said. The clerk's office has not
been audited since 1968, when a state
audit was performed on all county
offices. The planning and zoning
department never has been audited.
Glascock said his office currently is
trying to locate the misplaced funds,
but said work in the voter registration
office will prevent him from giving an
immediate reply to Caldwell's
questions.
In other county business, the County
Court gave interim Sheriff Bill
Whitehead the go- ahe- ad to obtain new
bids for nine patrol cars which will be
larger than those the city plans to
purchase.
The county has joined the city in
( See ELECTION, page UA)
Smi MjiIi
Murry Glascock
A long week
Confusion in P& Z
causes another delay
By Kenny Seeney
Missourian staff writer
On its second consideration of a
disputed rezoning of 120 acres ( 48
hectares) of land south of Columbia,
the Boone County Planning and
Zoning Commission wound up
entangled in procedural confusion
Thursday night and was forced to
delay the whole thing
At its fust hearing Sept 16, the
commission recommended the
rezoning from agricultural to
residential The County Court,
however, sent the case back to the
commission It turned out Thursday
that nobody was sure just why.
At issue is the request of James
Hofmann to subdivide part of the
property he has contracted to buy
from Raymond Meyers Neighbors
of the property, on US 63 about four
miles south of Columbia, strongl
oppose the request
Commission members, confused
as to whether the County Court
wanted a rehearing or a continuance
in the case, tabled it until members
can read the County Court minutes
to find out
Hugo Vianello, who opposes the
rezoning, said he thought the
commission's decision was fair
James and Carol Hofmann the
would- b- e developers, had no
comment
Commission members professed
puzzlement " I think this a slap on
the hand to send this request back to
the commission to act on this
request again," said board member
DickWeibel
If the check of the minutes shows
that a rehearing is necessary, it will
be scheduled later J
Fire kills trapped dog,
damages local home
ByRlckStoff
Missourian staff writer
" The only casualty is over there,"
said Craig Lubbers, 2208 Oakwood
Drive, as he pointed to a small rug lying
in the grass behind his apartment after
a fire there Thursday afternoon Under
the rug was Lubbers' dog Pierre, which
died of smoke inhalation in the fire.
Lubbers did not learn of the fire until
it had been extinguished and firemen
had found Pierre dead in a bedroom. " I
was on campus all day," said Lubbers,
a junior accounting major at the
University. " When I got back people
were pretty well taking care of things "
What he found was that the fire had
damaged a bedroom and a bathroom in
the back of the apartment and smoke
had damaged the apartment's other
rooms Acting Columbia Fire Chief
Girard Wren estimated structural
damage at $ 5,000 and property damage
at $ 1,000
The fire apparently was caused by a
malfunctioning furnace that ignited
some of Lubbers' clothes in a bedroom
closet, firemen said
Lubbers had gotten Pierre, one- ha- lf
wire- ha- ir terrier and one- ha- lf poodle,
about eight months ago " I used to live
across the street Some girls over there
gave turn to me," he said
" He was so little you could just hold
him like this," he said, cupping his
hand. " Just about everything I own is
messed up"
" What I hate to think about is the way
he died," Lubbers said.
Lubbers said the first person he saw
when he returned from class told nun
she had " bad news " Lubbers thought
at first something had happened to his
girl friend who was away on a trip " I
was kind of relieved it was only this,"
he said.
Index
Opinion 4B
People IB
Sports 4A- S- A
N. Y. Stocks 11A
Comics 6B
Classified 8A- 10- A
Morning Record 11A

1 1
' In town s
today
11a. m. Hearing of House Select
Committee on Presidential
Primaries, Boone County
Courthouse.
5: 30 p. m. Warren Hearnes
press conference, Ramada Inn.
8 p. m. High school football,
Hickman vs Hannibal, Hickman
Field.
Exhibits
Continuing: University FJse
Arts Gallery, drawings by
Brooke Cameron, 9 am. to 3 pm.
Public library, Acrylics by
Evelyn Jorgenson, 9 am. to 6
p. m. Columbia Gallery of
Photography, photographs by
Ansel Adams, 11 a m. to 3 p m.
Columbia Art League heraldic
banners by Gary Hennlgh and
paintings by William Sapp, 10: 30
ajn 3 15 p. m. Betty Robins
Gallery, pastels and paintings by
Suzanne Vanasse, 10: 30 a. m. to
3: 15 p m Columbia College Art
Center Gallery, oil paintings and
water colors by Frank Stack, 8
am to 4 30 p m. Stephens
College Student Art Gallery,
painting, sculpture, photography,
ceramics and glass works, 8 am.
to 5 p. m. Davis Art Gallery,
Navajo handiwork, 8 a. m. to 5
p m. Kirtley Library, Columbia
College, floor plans, pencil
sketches, water colors and
perspectives by Marianne
Clough, 8am to 10pm.
See page 5B for movie listings
Insight
Who will pay
cost of new
power plant?
Proposition One:
regardless of passage
consumers bear cost
By Terry Judd
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missounans
Against Proposition One says passage
of the proposed measure will result in
higher electricity ratesr bettQtiammior
Reformed Electric Rates, initiators of
the proposition, contends its defeat will
have the same effect.
Under Proposition One, electricity
utility companies would be prohibited
from charging higher rates while a
power plant is being built to pay for
what is misleadingly termed
" construction work in progress"
( CWIP).
The term is misleading because the
utilities are not being allowed to charge
electricity consumers for all power
plant construction costs as they are
incurred, but only for the interest cost
of borrowing money to build the plants.
Under CWIP once a power plant goes
into operation, ratepayers begin paying
not only tor the interest cost but also for
the construction and operation costs of
a plant In theory, the rate increase at
this time would be less than under the
old system of not allowing any plant
costs to be charged before the plant
went into operation.
The CWIP controversy began in
Missouri with a 1975 decision by the
state Public Service Commission ( PSC)
to allow Union Electric Co. of St Louis
to charge its ratepayers for the interest
cost of borrowing money to build a
( See PROPOSITION, page 11A)
i 1
r'J" iTATHSITT & MLI'JY. TR'Y. RICJTIL. JClETY
COLUMBIA, Uo. 65201
vST. 1C- 5-- 74
9 See page 4A
69th Year No. 34 Good Morning! It's Friday, Oct. 22, 1 976 2 Section, - 18 Page 15 Cents
Security weak in ailing j ail
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Boone County Jail prisoners may be placed in a 10
By Ken Evans
Missourian staff writer
The Boone CountyJail sits behind the
Courthouse looking more like a
condemned schoolhouse than a jail
Crisp morning air blows past
fragments of glass where windows once
protected inmates from the weather
Inside, barefoot prisoners roam the
concrete floor of their cell, and gray
concrete shows through red paint on the
floor
Downstairs in the jail lobby, Kenny
Baumann, the head jailer, monitors the
sounds of the cellblock on an intercom
and studies a chalkboard showing the
cell assignments of each inmate
Closed circuit cameras carry activity
in the cells to the sheriff's office in the
Courthouse, about 50 feet away.
Baumann was responsible for 42
prisoners on a recent Friday, but only
31 were in the county jail. Nine were in
the city jail, two were in the State
Hospital at Fulton Twenty- si- x of the
prisoners have been charged with a
crime and are waiting trial They have
not been convicted
On weekends the jail is much more
crowded
The Boone County Jail does not hold
prisoners for more than one year
Those with sentences longer than one
year are sent to the state penitentiary
in Jefferson City
The Columbia City Council passed a
resolution Sept 20 which would denv
the county use of the aty jail after Dec
1
The resolution calls for the county to
provide 24- ho- ur supervision of the
county prisoners in the city jail, to
assume responsibility for liability from
damages to property and persons, to
take the responsibility for renovations
to the facility as it ( the county) sees fit
or at the recommendation of the
Columbia fire marshal and to provide
( See JAIL, page 12A)
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Karen Uison
-- man " tank" where they share a toilet, a sink and dilapidated shower.
State accepts city plan;
air pollution suit ends
By David Firestone
Missourian staff writer
ST LOUIS John Levis says he
doesn't expect to see anyone from the
city of Columbia in front of his
commission again
Levis, chairman of the Missouri Air
Conservation Commission, closed the
book on the city's air pollution suit
Thursday morning when he and three
other members of the commission
formally agreed to accept the city's
settlement proposal.
The suit, hied last June by the state
attorney general's office, charged the
aty with repeated air quality violations
at its municipal power plant
A settlement was accepted
informally by the commission at its
Sept 22 meeting. Formal approval,
however, was delayed until the aty and
state could agree upon a timetable for
implementation
The settlement requires the
installation of a $ 2 3 million
electrostatic precipitator, and levies an
$ 8,000 fine on the city Installation of the
precipitator will begin Jan 1, 1978, and
the air- cleani- ng device will be in
operation by January 1979
The city has to be in final compliance
with state regulations by March 15,
1979
. " It took a while, but we finally got it,"
Levis said after the meeting " I think
the wait was worth it."
Levis' remarks contrasted sharply
with the severe tongue lashing he gave
City -- Counselor Rhonda Thomas in
August He has accused the aty then of
failing to act m good faith
Levis said he now was satisfied with
the agreement " I don't have any
questions about the city's good faith
this time," he said " Besides, they're
bound to act by the court order If they
don't, they'll be in contempt of court "
The commission is not concerned
with how the city will afford the
precipitator, Levis said ' They've said
they could do it, and now they'll have
to"
Assistant Atty Gen Dan Summers
said the court order enforcing the
agreement would be entered in Boone
County Circuit Court by the end of
October or the middle of November
City officials still will maintain
contact with the commission's staff on
a regular basis- t- o ensure no violations
of the agreement, Levis said He said he
doubted, however, that the matter
would return to the commission again
unless there was a flagrant violation of
the terms
Audit shows missing funds
! Clerk's woes mount f By Scott Sunde - and Martha Polkey- -
This has not been one of Boone
County Clerk Murry Glascock's better
weeks.
Thursday, an audit of his office
revealed a discrepancy of about $ 1,500
in reports of planning and zoning fees
from 1975 and 1976.
On Tuesday, it was disclosed that
Glascock made a $ 1 million mistake
last year in reporting county tax
revenue. That error could cost the
county at least 138,000 in lost revenue- sharin- g
funds for 1978.
County Auditor Don Caldwell said
Thursday that the chance of recovering
the lost $ 38,000 is only " about 30 per
cent"
To top it all off, Glascock can't find
the answers to all of Caldwell's
questions about the errors because he is
deluged by work before the Nov. 2
general election. The county clerk
rqmfaHp $ ffWtinns.
Caldwell said a " routine periodic
audit" of the clerk's and planning and
toning offices shows that about $ 1,500 in
fees handled by the clerk's office was
not received by the county treasurer's
office.
" The clerk has been unable to
account for the funds," Caldwell said.
At this point, be said, " we haven't been
able to get an explanation."
- Glascock said part of the- - money
apparently had not been delivered
because of confusion in the recent move
from the County Courthouse to the
County- Cit- y Building. He said $ 300 has
been located and sent to the treasurer
The remaining discrepancies total
about $ 700 to $ 800, Glascock said.
He said the discrepancies apparently
were bookkeeping mistakes made in
the clerk's office at various tunes and
were not attempts to take county
money.
The fees have gone through the
county clerk's office before being
delivered to the treasurer since the
initiation of planning and zoning in 1974.
Caldwell said the proper procedure did
not call for the fees- t- o pass4hrough the
clerk's office, but Glascock said that
procedure had been followed at County
Court direction.
Southern District Judge Carolyn
Lathrop said she does not recall a court
order to that effect during her tenure.
Fees now are reported directly to the
treasurer's office.
Caldwell said he requested
information on the fees from Glascock
through a '' non- publ- ic interoffice
memo" after the audit began three
weeks ago.
The audit has not been extensive
enough to determine if the errors are
more than common reporting mistakes,
Caldwell Mid. " Some- lar- ge errors'
have been discovered by the audit, he
said, including at least one mistake of
more than $ 100.
Fees collected in the planning and
zoning department include those for
building permits, conditional use
permits, subdivision platt fees and map
fees Caldwell would not say which fees
were involved. He said he assumed the
errors involved both cash and check
transactions.
The audit was routine and not
initiated because of any sign of
inadequate reporting procedures,
Caldwell said. The clerk's office has not
been audited since 1968, when a state
audit was performed on all county
offices. The planning and zoning
department never has been audited.
Glascock said his office currently is
trying to locate the misplaced funds,
but said work in the voter registration
office will prevent him from giving an
immediate reply to Caldwell's
questions.
In other county business, the County
Court gave interim Sheriff Bill
Whitehead the go- ahe- ad to obtain new
bids for nine patrol cars which will be
larger than those the city plans to
purchase.
The county has joined the city in
( See ELECTION, page UA)
Smi MjiIi
Murry Glascock
A long week
Confusion in P& Z
causes another delay
By Kenny Seeney
Missourian staff writer
On its second consideration of a
disputed rezoning of 120 acres ( 48
hectares) of land south of Columbia,
the Boone County Planning and
Zoning Commission wound up
entangled in procedural confusion
Thursday night and was forced to
delay the whole thing
At its fust hearing Sept 16, the
commission recommended the
rezoning from agricultural to
residential The County Court,
however, sent the case back to the
commission It turned out Thursday
that nobody was sure just why.
At issue is the request of James
Hofmann to subdivide part of the
property he has contracted to buy
from Raymond Meyers Neighbors
of the property, on US 63 about four
miles south of Columbia, strongl
oppose the request
Commission members, confused
as to whether the County Court
wanted a rehearing or a continuance
in the case, tabled it until members
can read the County Court minutes
to find out
Hugo Vianello, who opposes the
rezoning, said he thought the
commission's decision was fair
James and Carol Hofmann the
would- b- e developers, had no
comment
Commission members professed
puzzlement " I think this a slap on
the hand to send this request back to
the commission to act on this
request again," said board member
DickWeibel
If the check of the minutes shows
that a rehearing is necessary, it will
be scheduled later J
Fire kills trapped dog,
damages local home
ByRlckStoff
Missourian staff writer
" The only casualty is over there,"
said Craig Lubbers, 2208 Oakwood
Drive, as he pointed to a small rug lying
in the grass behind his apartment after
a fire there Thursday afternoon Under
the rug was Lubbers' dog Pierre, which
died of smoke inhalation in the fire.
Lubbers did not learn of the fire until
it had been extinguished and firemen
had found Pierre dead in a bedroom. " I
was on campus all day," said Lubbers,
a junior accounting major at the
University. " When I got back people
were pretty well taking care of things "
What he found was that the fire had
damaged a bedroom and a bathroom in
the back of the apartment and smoke
had damaged the apartment's other
rooms Acting Columbia Fire Chief
Girard Wren estimated structural
damage at $ 5,000 and property damage
at $ 1,000
The fire apparently was caused by a
malfunctioning furnace that ignited
some of Lubbers' clothes in a bedroom
closet, firemen said
Lubbers had gotten Pierre, one- ha- lf
wire- ha- ir terrier and one- ha- lf poodle,
about eight months ago " I used to live
across the street Some girls over there
gave turn to me," he said
" He was so little you could just hold
him like this," he said, cupping his
hand. " Just about everything I own is
messed up"
" What I hate to think about is the way
he died," Lubbers said.
Lubbers said the first person he saw
when he returned from class told nun
she had " bad news " Lubbers thought
at first something had happened to his
girl friend who was away on a trip " I
was kind of relieved it was only this,"
he said.
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People IB
Sports 4A- S- A
N. Y. Stocks 11A
Comics 6B
Classified 8A- 10- A
Morning Record 11A